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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Sunday, September 14, 2008

I often give the cakeywreckitude a rest on Sundays, but then I thought, hey, instead of skipping a day's post, why not feature amazing NON-Wrecks instead? After all, it's nice to be reminded that cake decorating is not merely an outlet for the illiterate, color-blind, and taste-challenged: there are some real masters of the art out there. I can't promise I'll do this every week, so just think of this as the occasional chocolate chip in the chocolate "muffin" (ie bald cupcake) that is Wrecks.

Ok, enough intro. Without further ado, I give you the amazing Wall-E:

Yes, he's cake. And he's life-sized. How sweet is that?

Check out the B&L logo and uber realistic "rust" on the fire extinguisher. Now this is how you use an airbush, guys.

These are my personal photos - hence the watermarks. They were taken at this year's national ICES convention in Orlando, Florida, and I'd love your help in identifying the bakers responsible.

UPDATE: Ah, my readers come through for me again! It appears that Wall-E is the work of brothers Edward and Antoni Frys of European Cake Gallery, ironically located in Texas. They don't have Wall-E posted there due to copyright muckety-muck, but my hubby John spoke with them on the phone and confirmed he is indeed their creation. Thanks to all of you who helped me track them down!

That cake reminds me of the robot in the movie, "Short Circuit". The movie had Ally Sheedy and that guy from the "Police Academy" movies in it... think 1980s. My brother was obsessed with that movie back in the day.

Yes, a picasa site lists it as being by Edward and Tony Frys. Awesome work! There were a lot of awesome cakes there this year!

I read an interview with the creator of Wall-E, he says the look came when he was playing around with some binoculars. I had the same problem with Wall-E looking so much like Johnny 5, but this guy was believable, and wasn't even thinking of Short Circuit when he did Wall-E. I felt better about it after I read the article!

I love your blog...always good for a laugh. This cake though, is AMAZING! It is kind of fun for a brief change to see a really well done cake. I love your idea for Sundays. Thanks for all of the great entertainment.

I don't think I could cut into that cake! It'd be almost sacreligious to eat it! It's too well-done......and I kinda get the feeling Wall-E would turns and give me the sad eyes as I cut a piece from one of the wheels.

I had to stand in line behind these guys at ICES waiting to get my cake photographed when they were registering it. Soooo...needless to say I waited in line a LONG time because they took about 1,000 pictures of this awesome cake! The Fry's Bros made this cake, and one was just on Food Network Challange last weekend (The red head guy-who tag-teamed the theme "There was an old lady that lives in a shoe". His Wall-E Cake in person was so awesome, his binoculars looked SO REAL it was amazing. Try standing in line behind these guys in line to register your cake that had flown from Kansas City to Orlando, I wanted to hide behind a blue screen! Talk about intimidating!

This is definately the work of the extremely talented Edward Frys and his brother, Tony. It took them around 3 to create this work of art. It was perfect--down to the last detail.Edward Frys owns ECG, European Cake Gallery and sells great edible luster dusts and petal dusts.Edward also created the lifesize Yoda cake at the Oklahoma State Sugar Arts Show that was featured in American Cake Decorating Magazine.He was the latest newcomer on the Food Network Cake Challenge this month.

That is, for lack of a better word, awe-inspiring. There's just... there's physics at work here I can't even begin to understand. The sheer engineering skill, let alone the artistry that went into it is... stunning.

Ah, once in a great while, the benevolent cake gods smile down upon us lowly muffins and deliver a culinary masterpiece that restores our faith in the art of fondant and airbrushing. this cake is phenomenal! It's more like art than cake. And it's so cute!

Coooooool!!!!!!!Might have a bit of trouble eating the rust colur bits but otherwise....Great!!!!Only thing I could find on them was this:http://www.yelp.com/biz/european-cake-gallery-san-diegoAt least it's about the gallery nothing about the Frey bros though.And you can check this out but it Doesn't mentions them:http://www.yelp.com/biz/european-cake-gallery-san-diego.Good luck finding out more about them!

Edward and Anthony are my cousins. I've seen them go from helping their mom do cakes when they were kids, to doing stuff that makes their mom just shake her head in amazement. They really know how to build the supports for cakes like this so they travel a lot better than you'd think. Wall-E's fire extinguisher is cake as well - I think it's 60 or 80 servings for that alone.

To Chris M.: Cooooool!Thanks for the 411. To bad their not in New York, I'd hire them in a sec. if I had the cash. (Something tells me that they might be quite exspensive,considering the workmanship.)Oh, FYI......You should tell your cousins that they're spelled Gallery wrong on their website. (Hmm, maybe that was the reason I could find them. I found a European Cake Gallery but that was located somewhere else in Texas. Oh well!)

Being a long time customer I can state, that they are very reasonable in price compared to what you find in New York and California. Considering how much research and time they put into all of their cakes to get the details correct. If you want to know their secret to all their fun cakes it is their niece. They enjoy making these cakes as realistic as possible for her; because if it does not meet her approval then the customer would not be happy. I too have first hand knowledge of how Edward and Antoni have grown in the cake business. Up until about four years ago they were know as Elizabeth's boys, that was when they finally created a name for themselves. Edward has been baking and decorating since he was little, and learned everything from his mom and asking a lot of questions. Antoni was the chocolate dip strawberry brother until last year, when he made his very first cake Homer Simpson standing on the donut for the OK cake show.

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